It was created by Kamehameha III and was part of the administration of each successive monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
His uncle Kaihupaa, who had been an assistant to King Kamehameha III, fell into a well trying to save ʻIaukea when he was only about six.
Within weeks he was appointed Minister of Finance for King Kamehameha III replacing Gerrit P. Judd, and from 1854 to 1856 served in the House of Nobles.
Kamehameha III established Hawaii's first public education system on October 15, 1840.
James Young Kānehoa (1797–1851) was a member of the court of King Kamehameha II and Kamehameha III during the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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From 1846 he was a member of the first Board of Land Commissioners under Kamehameha III.
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Judd was born March 20, 1887 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the grandson of Gerrit P. Judd, who was an early American Missionary, a cabinet minister to King Kamehameha III, and co-founder of Punahou School.
They also took the king's yacht, Kamehameha III, which was sailed to Tahiti and never returned.
The French admiral Dupetit Thouars, that had invaded Tahiti, landed in Hawaii a decade before in 1837 aboard the French frigate La Venus and had demanded the Premier Kaʻahumanu II and the young King Kamehameha III to stop persecuting the French Catholic missionaries; at that time Dupetit Thouars was only a captain of an exploring expedition and didn't have the power or men to put any pressure on the Hawaiians.
Pākī (1808–1855), Hawaiian high chief during the reign of King Kamehameha III